Besides the Yamasee, other tribes sought preferment in Saint Augustine after Queen Anne’s War. This was principally the result of a shift in English Indian policy. The Carolinians were masters at the game of power politics on the frontier. During wartime they sought out Indian allies and insured their friendship with lavish gifts of rum, muskets, and foodstuffs. Then, when hostilities ended, the English reduced or eliminated their aid to the Indians, although their traders stood ready with more gifts and more rum and muskets should another conflict threaten with the French or Spanish. For the English it was too costly to maintain the Indians during peacetime. In Florida the Spaniards had always been more idealistic in their dealings with the natives. The Floridians were eager to proselyte and convert the Indians but were not at first eager to use them as military pawns. In fact in the 17th century the governor refused to provide the Indians with either rum or muskets, items that the English found such effective inducements. In the 18th century the governor of Florida became more practical, but it was always more difficult for him to find the money and supplies to meet English and French competition. (Tepaske GSF)